Masaru Mizuochi

Without Tattoo is a work that generates bodies marked by tattoo-like traces without ever using the word “tattoo” in the prompt. What appears is not tattoo as an explicit sign, but the historical concepts carried by tattoo culture: resistance, deviation, and self-determination. Using FLUX.1, the work intervenes in the model’s internal generation process through an original pose-estimation-based inference method, causing shifts in facial position and bodily configuration even when generation begins from the same seed. When intensified, this intervention leaves irreversible distortions in the resulting image. These distortions function not as errors, but as traces of resistance against the model’s tendency toward aesthetic normalization. By linking the politics of bodily representation to the internal dynamics of generative AI, the work makes visible how deviation, discipline, and resistance are being reconfigured in the algorithmic age.